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# Skandapurana 7.8.34\_407

Skandapurāṇa 7.8.34\_407

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [7.8.34\_407](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.8.34_407)

vyūhabhaṃgaśca devānāmabhavacchaktinandana .  
atha mṛtyuśca kālaśca kṛtāntaśceti te trayaḥ ..46. .  
andhakaṃ bahubhiḥ34 pāśairbabandhuḥ krodhamūrcchitāḥ .  
pāśām̐ścaiva sa daityendro vicchidya sumahābalaḥ .  
bāhupāśena balavānkṛtāntamavabadhnata . .47. .  
sa baddho bāhupāśena kṛtāntaḥ krodhamūrchitaḥ .  
utkṣipyāndhakamuddhūto nināya balavān balāt ..48. .  
taṃ nīyamānaṃ saṃprekṣya hiraṇyākṣaḥ sutaṃ svakam .  
jaghāna sāyakaistīkṣṇaiḥ kṛtāntaṃ subhṛśaṃ dṛḍham . .49. .  
tasya gātrāṇi sarvāṇi sandhīm̐ścaiva mahābalaḥ .  
vivyādha niśitairbāṇaiḥ sa viṣṭabdho vyatiṣṭhata . .8.80.50 ..

> And the battle-array of the gods was broken, O son of Śakti! / Then Death (Mṛtyu), Time (Kāla), and the Finisher (Kṛtānta)—those three, / faint with fury, bound Andhaka with many nooses. / But tearing the nooses asunder, that lord of the Daityas, being exceedingly powerful, / mighty as he was, bound Kṛtānta with the noose of his own arms. / Bound by the arm-noose, Kṛtānta, faint with fury, / lifted up Andhaka, and having shaken him, that strong one carried him off by force. / Seeing his son being carried away, Hiraṇyākṣa / struck Kṛtānta very fiercely and firmly with sharp arrows. / That mighty one pierced all his limbs and joints / with sharpened shafts; transfixed by them, he came to a halt.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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